The United Arab Emirates will hold its sixth culture summit in Abu Dhabi to celebrate its multicultural population and cement its position as a major cultural center on the planet. Under the theme “A Living Culture,” the three-day event, which gets underway on October 23, aims to bring together cultural leaders from all around the world.
According to the summit website, policymakers, researchers, artists, and cultural professionals will attend the summit, which will “examine urgent contemporary issues, including the impacts of digital media and AI, creative ecosystems and indigenous practices, representation, and topographies of public space.
The largest art museum on the Arabian Peninsula, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, located in the capital of the Emirates has long invested in global culture. A tour of the museum is included in the summit. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Contemporary Art Museum, a branch of the main museum in New York, is also housed there.
According to Johan Burger, director of executive education at the College of Business and Economics at the University of the United Arab Emirates, the UAE is in fact a center of world culture.
According to Mohammed Baharoon, director general at B’huth, the Dubai Public Policy Research Centre, “the UAE is a hub for international culture because of its demographic diversity and the country’s emphasis on the cultural values that unite different religious and ethnic origins.”
He asserted that the next conference is “also our means of minimizing identity polarization” and fostering social harmony. Baharoon also says that the UAE places a high priority on cultural tolerance.
The Mary, Mother of Jesus Mosque, he continues, “is just next to a Christian church in Abu Dhabi. This is an initiative that forms part of the UAE’s policy to promote integration.
There are numerous civilizations present. He noted that the UAE does this without sacrificing its distinctive Emirati culture in the sectors of sports, cuisine, music, and the arts.